If you missed out on this, there’s yet another opportunity to attend the seminar day in Chicago. For more info, visit the AMA Hot Top Series: Search Marketing page. I understand that this Hot Topic Series is to be expanded out with another few cities in the Fall, so stay tuned.

I have a few speaking gigs coming up for any of you who are interested. I’ll be speaking first in April at the Search Engine Strategies Conference in New York, on the Images & Search EnginesÂ panel on the topic of Optimization Through Image Sharing Sites:

The talk focuses primarily upon optimizing via Flickr, since my comparisonÂ research indicates that Flickr has the best potential for natural search optimization. You’ll notice that my postings here at Natural Search Blog increasingly have illustrations accompanying them, and I’ve typicallyÂ hosted those through Flickr just for the SEO value in an effort to “practice what I preach”. 😉

I’ll also be speaking at the American Marketing Association’s Hot Topic Series on Search Engine Marketing in April (San Francisco), May (New York), and June (Chicago)Â on theÂ subject of “Organic Search is All About Content”. These one-day conferences will have some other great guests such as Stephan Spencer from Netconcepts, Amanda Camp and Vanessa Fox from Google, Eric Ward the link-building expert, Paul Oâ€™Brien from HP, and others.